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Kanye West Episode of ‘The Shop’ Pulled After Rapper Doubles Down on Bigoted Comments

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first provided to Andscape, Maverick Carter, CEO of “The Shop” production company Springhill Entertainment, confirmed West was invited to appear on the show after his recent outbursts of antisemitic and bigoted public statements.Carter said he believed West “was capable of a respectful discussion and he was ready to address” his recent comments.

He also apologized for making that mistake.“Yesterday we taped an episode of The Shop with Kanye West. Kanye was booked weeks ago and, after talking to Kanye directly the day before we taped, I believed he was capable of a respectful discussion and he was ready to address all his recent comments.

Unfortunately, he used The Shop to reiterate more hate speech and extremely dangerous stereotypes,” Carter said.“We have made the decision not to air this episode or any of Kanye’s remarks.

While The Shop embraces thoughtful discourse and differing opinions, we have zero tolerance for hate speech of any kind and will never allow our channels to be used to promote hate.

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